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Coughlin, Charles E(dward)or Father Coughlin(born Oct. 25, 1891, Hamilton, Ont., Can.—died Oct. 27, 1979, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., U.S.) Canadian-born U.S. clergyman. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1923, he became pastor of a Michigan church. In 1930 he began radio broadcasts of his sermons, into which he gradually injected reactionary political statements and anti-Semitic rhetoric. His sermons attracted one of the first deeply loyal mass audiences in broadcast history. He attacked Herbert Hoover and later turned on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. His magazine, Social Justice, targeted Wall Street, communism, and Jews. It was banned from the mails and ceased publication in 1942, the same year the Catholic hierarchy ordered Coughlin to stop broadcasting. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That means millions of Americans--and others around the world--heard Father Coughlin, a priest of the Chicago Archdiocese, offer an odd invocation. Still, even Father Coughlin, whose heyday was in the '30s, might blush to hear some of what passes these days for on-air punditry. In the tradition of Tom Watson, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy, and George Wallace, Pat Buchanan plays the bigot's clarinet. |
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